Colorful ‘The Neon Demon’ Trailer is a Model’s Vampire Nightmare!

The first colorful trailer is here for Nicolas Winding Refn’s (Drive) supermodel horror The Neon Demon. It reminds me of Martin, although there’s a cascade of visually homages from A Nightmare On Elm Street to The Shining.

Elle Fanning stars as ‘Jesse,’ an aspiring model who moves to Los Angeles in hopes of breaking through. Her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

They look like vampires, which is actually a brilliant spin on the subgenre considering Dracula always creates beautiful companions…

Composer Cliff Martinez recently stated that the film vibes with Mark Robson’s Valley of The Dolls and Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with the music of Drive.

“I think Neon Demon had some similarities to Drive,” he says to Vice’s Thump, adding “it’s kind of a sparse electronic score.” Noting that the score “is almost all synthesizer,” he adds, “there’s a lot of places where the music is really pushed out more into the spotlight, even more than Drive. I think I got a bigger part in the film, it’s flattering.”

He continues: “We describe the first half as a melodrama like Valley of the Dolls, and the second half is like ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’. It doesn’t seem to be a traditional horror film to me, but horror is the genre that it’s closest to.”